jueves, 23 de agosto de 2012

Its new radio ad in Florida features elderly narrators saying, "In Florida,
they're already talking about how the Ryan-Romney plan will end
Medicare and replace it with a voucher." Again, PolitiFact gives this
claim a "Mostly False" rating. Seniors...

Vt. inn, 2 women settle gay marriage lawsuit: Kate and Ming Linsley contacted the ACLU after Ming's mother was told last year by the Wildflower Inn's events manager that the inn didn't host "gay receptions" due to the innkeepers' "personal feelings." The women say they will use the money for legal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Snoop Dogg has rapped in songs where gay slurs have been tossed about. He's even said them, part of a long list of rappers who have freely used the f-word — the other f-word — in rhyme. For years, anti-gay epithets and sentiments in ...

Storm Isaac moves near Puerto Rico, seen becoming hurricane: MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac unleashed heavy rain and winds off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Thursday and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane before tearing across the Dominican Republic and Haiti, U.S. forecasters said.

Paired with a shift from welfare to the punitive management of poverty, the result would be, as in Brazil, a trichotomous division of society. At the top would be the obscenely rich, capitalists and top business managers. In the middle would be stably ...

Death toll rises to 26 in Venezuela prison brawl: The Venezuelan government increased to 26 the death toll from last weekend's battle between heavily armed inmate gangs at the Yare I prison near Caracas. The initial casualty report, issued Monday, spoke of 25 dead and 43 injured. Among those killed in ...

Ex-lawyer in fatal Santa Fe DWI out of prison: SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A former Santa Fe attorney who received a seven-year prison sentence in 2009 for vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident has been released from prison. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/O9WX3t ) that ...

Mexican judge cuts ammo charge against US trucker: Jabin Bogan has been in a maximum security prison in Veracruz after crossing from West Texas into Juarez, Mexico, in April. He faced up to 30 years in prison on an ammunition trafficking charge, but the judge changed it a possession charge Thursday.

Revictimizing Native women for political purposes. Republicans in the U.S. House, including Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, are blocking the expanded authority that tribal police need to deal with non-Indian rapists of Native American women on Indian land.

A united group of parents, doctors and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network are suing the Clovis Unified School District in California over a sex education drive championing abstinence until marriage. The lawsuit alleges that the school district is going ...

Activists blame America for toll of Mexico drug war: 12, and is calling attention to the drug violence, immigration, and other issues affecting both Mexico and the United States. Sicilia's son, Juan Francisco was killed last year, a causality of drug war in Mexico. (AP Photo/UT San Diego, Howard Lipin ...

Study will spotlight underrepresented Native Americans: A study of gambling and alcohol use behavior among Native Americans will likely reveal some significant findings on these co-occurring problems, but more importantly could lead the way to a sharper focus on a population that has been ...

Taiwan to extend agricultural assistance to southern Haiti: 23 (CNA) Taiwan will launch an agricultural aid program in southern Haiti to continue its assistance to the Caribbean country, an official at a government-funded agency said Thursday. The program is set to be implemented in Les Cayes, southern Haiti, ...

As originally passed by the U.S. Senate, the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization legislation would allow tribes to exercise limited criminal jurisdiction over certain non-Indians who violate Native American women on Indian reservations. Tribes ...

Codelco to pay under $1.8 billion for Anglo stake: sources: SANTIAGO (Reuters) - World No.1 copper producer Codelco will pay under $1.8 billion for a stake in global miner Anglo American's south-central Chilean assets and the mining titans are set to end their bitter brawl on Thursday, sources said. Anglo (AAL.

Chile inflation to be bit higher in second half of 2012-cbank: SANTIAGO Aug 22 (Reuters) - World No. 1 copper producer Chile will have "somewhat higher" inflation in the second half of the year but it will remain under the 4 percent ceiling of the central bank's tolerance range, bank President Rodrigo Vergara said ...

We who seek out objective information know that Venezuela has the most effective, efficient, successful poverty reduction program on earth (50% poverty reduction and 70% extreme poverty reduction over the last decade). Most corporate news consumers don ...

40 indicted in drug ring run from Indiana prisons: A crisp new American flag flies out front, prayer services have returned to a normal schedule and walls once...More >>. The Sikh temple where a white supremacist killed six people earlier this month has been largely repaired. A crisp new American flag ...

Florida's prison privatization gamble: While the community sleeps, Correction Corporation of America and its counterparts are steadily building private, profit-producing prisons. So do not be fooled by the temporary setback that occurred when the ACLU and the prison guards union forced the ...

State tops South in infant, mother mortality rate: “We are not able to bring down the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate as we have failed to change people's attitude to mother-child healthcare. Folk artistes can influence people to a large extent through their campaign better than ...